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Another priority of Xfce is adherence to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop. Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of separately packaged parts that together provide all functions of the desktop environment, but can be selected in subsets to suit user needs and preference. Xfce aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.

WinXP is no longer supported. Unfortunately many of us are still tied, for one reason or another, to windows to run certain pieces of software. In my opinion, it is not yet a total replacement for windows in ALL situations. I am a long time windows user. Over the past couple of years I have attempted to migrate to linux, with varied success. I simply hate Win8. Win7 is good, but cost too much. Linux in general has so many more advantages but still a few drawbacks.

There’s no swap partition in this schema. The basics of installing Debian on the macbook with MacOS X and an encrypted root partition are still the same:

Make all partitions with the MacOS installer diskutil: one for MacOS X (~30 GiB), other for /boot (~4 GiB) and the rest for Debian’s root (~260 GiB). 5 mm thick, not suitable for this macbook). Instead part of the /boot space is there to create a 2 GiB swap file. Last step is to speed-up boot time by blessing the boot partition from MacOS X. 9 GB disk0s2 3: EFI 3. Fortunately the Squeeze DVD has a rescue mode in the main menu (after rebooting), which is able to mount the encrypted partition and drop you to a root shell there, so everything can be fixed and even run tasksel to install the rest of the system. 9 GB disk0s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data 263. 0 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS MACOSX 29. 6 kernels in running the swap on a file or on a disk partition. The installer doesn’t recognize the encrypted partition, so I had to setup it again, exactly the same as before and reinstall the system and now the GRUB bootloader into /dev/sda3. In addition this makes this part much faster, and future upgrades to Leopard too. We’ll miss them for sure. The next is to reboot, enter rEFIt disk partitioning tool and synchronize the MBR with GPT. Unfortunately here, due my excessive minimalistic second installation, I ended with a bootable system, but without root password or any other user. Funny to see the encrypted partition appear as MS data under MacOS X :-). 8 GB disk0s4

And then sudo bless –device /dev/disk0s3 –setBoot –legacy –verbose, if your boot partition is the third like mine. And once again I have to recover an old post to reinstall the macbook because of yet another disk failure. Yep, it was so long since last post that even the age of the space shuttles has ended. I don’t have a band in my garage (there’s just room for the car), neither want a Office or iWorks trial wasting space. Instead the good’n’old Lenny, this time I used the latest point release for Squeeze, 6. There’s no difference with 2. Install rEFIt on MacOS X and reboot to see it works and boots MacOS X. The later ones formatted as Unix filesystem, never empty space. These will be /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4 because /dev/sda1 is already used by the EFI partition. Customize the MacOS X Tiger install so it install a minimal system (~5 GiB) from the first DVD. 1 GB disk0 1: EFI 200. Boot into Squeeze installer CD/DVD (press ‘C’ for a while after the macbook startup ta-dah sound), setup partitions /boot and / on a encrypted volume, and install a minimal system (will be overwritten again, so no need to waste time installing). The Debian wiki’s theory is to install everything but the bootloader, which I followed. This made me realize that:

Hitachi disks are crap 😛 but unfortunately there’s the only 7 mm SATA disks available right now here on online shops (bigger ones have gone 9. Since two years ago price has dropped 40% for the same size 🙂
SSDs are still too expensive for mere mortals, unless you want to sacrifice a lot of space. Of course this is not the recommended method 😉 but works in case of need. 2, which has been released a couple of weeks ago. Figure out the partition name with disktutil list: